It's official

Here is where I put something related to the title and related to the general gist of the post. Well, today is October 15th. That's official. This is my forty-fifth (45th) blog post. Today is Blog Action Day. I'm not too impressed at the moment.

It has indeed been a long time since the last post. I cannot say what has delayed this one. Perhaps it was the overwhelming task of journaling my early fall events. Perhaps it is the doom of eminent debating that hangs over my head (I still think this is too early in the 2008 season to really get serious, considering everything else that hangs over so ominously). But I intend to address the highlights of these past few months in what might seem a monotonous post to those of you who are obviously more expressive than I am in their descriptions. Boy, doesn't it seem like I'm repeating myself?

Anywho, somewhere back in the mists of time gone by... (I'm don't know myself where this is going, where I should start... where it would be safe to assume your knowledge, or lack thereof)
I suppose I shall start with the most recent. Forget chronological order.

From Friday evening until Sunday afternoon, troop 342 from Nacogdoches, or whatever of it decided to come (you might want to know that Venture Crew 342 was there too), attended the 2007 Naconiche area Camporee. This was a rather well organized event. The purpose of a camporee in general is to gather Scout troops from around the area for... an instructive and fun mini camp. This year it was all about search and rescue. Mr. S, area camping chairman, managed to arrange for the fire department to come out to demonstrate and an EMS helicopter to fly in. Very interesting for all involved. The cooperation and effort of the troop (a small concern for me because of the recent shuffling) was actually one of the higher points of the trip for me, despite half of our older, more experienced scouts not coming. The younger guys managed to work it out quite nicely.

Perhaps this was a "coincidence", but on the very weekend that this took place, at the very same place, not too far from our campsite, the model fliers had their little planes going. For two hours of free time, a group of scouts watched them fly the RC planes around in circles. Fun stuff.

The previous weekend was one of the highlights of this fall so far. On that weekend, Dad, Andrew, Robert D. and I took a trip to Houston, for the 23rd annual Wings Over Houston airshow, probably the biggest in the state. Were the computer running at full speed, I might post some pictures. Oh well, I don't even know whether they have been taken off the camera yet. "Pictures are worth a thousand words", yet I don't intend to use one for a thousand, or even a hundred. Maybe it'll work later.

Well it's now 10 PM or later. I'm finished for now. Now this post too shall vanish after a few weeks, assuming we have a few weeks...

-Petr